muster

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To call (troops) together, as for inspection.
• intransitive verb To cause to come together; gather.
• intransitive verb To bring into existence or readiness; summon up: synonym: call.
• intransitive verb To assemble or gather.
• noun A gathering, especially of troops, for service, inspection, review, or roll call.
• noun The persons assembled for such a gathering.
• noun A muster roll.
• noun A gathering or collection.
• noun A flock of peacocks.
• idiom (pass muster) To be judged as acceptable.

from The Century Dictionary.

• . To show; point; exhibit.
• To bring together into a group or body for inspection, especially with a view to employing in or discharging from military service; in general, to collect, assemble, or array.
• Synonyms To call together, get together, gather, convene, congregate.
• To show; appear.
• To assemble; meet in one place, as soldiers; in general, to collect.
• noun A show; a review; an exhibition; in modern use, an exhibition in array; array.
• noun A pattern; a sample.
• noun A gathering of persons, as of troops for review or inspection, or in demonstration of strength; an assembling in force or in array; an array; an assemblage.
• noun A register or roll of troops mustered; also, the troops enrolled.
• noun In hunting, a company or flock of peacocks.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
• noun obsolete A show; a display.
• noun An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
• noun The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
• noun Any assemblage or display; a gathering.
• noun a book in which military forces are registered.
• noun a muster roll.
• noun (Mil.), [Eng.] one who takes an account of troops, and of their equipment; a mustering officer; an inspector.
• noun (Mil.) a list or register of all the men in a company, troop, or regiment, present or accounted for on the day of muster.
• noun to pass through a muster or inspection without censure.
• intransitive verb To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body.
• transitive verb To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like.
• transitive verb Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together.
• transitive verb (Mil.) to inspect and enter troops on the muster roll of the army.
• transitive verb (Mil.) to register them for final payment and discharge.
• transitive verb to gather up; to succeed in obtaining; to obtain with some effort or difficulty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Gathering.
• noun Showing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a gathering of military personnel for duty
• noun compulsory military service
• verb call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.
• verb gather or bring together